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I am a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Currently, we are working on the source tracking of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

PFAS is a group of chemicals that are water-soluble. PFAS chemicals have numerous important industrial applications, which widely increase their environmental exposure. They have been frequently detected and reported in drinking water resources.Therefore, there is a serious concern regarding their toxic effects on human health. The dietary pathway is the main route of the human uptake of PFAS. Their persistence in environmental, bioaccumulation in food webs, as well as their toxicity, depends on their complex chemistry in the environment. We are aiming to understand their environmental fate and behavior in soil and water bodies.

I received my Ph.D. with a focus on the environmental fate of nanoparticles and heavy metals in agricultural soils from Texas A&M University, College Station. Fall 2019, I was a Lab Instructor for the class of Agri-Material Process Engineering (Picture below), which helped me to implement the teaching skills that I have learned in different professional pedagogy workshops.